People’s not answering

I just posted a thread on this very subject, I'd direct you to it but I can't find it 5 mins later, I think that is the problem.

 

Verbal please and thank you's, please may I leave the table, written thank you letters for presents and gifts, general good manners and respect.

Unfortunately not taught today.

I helped a poster the other day on fixing a shelf without using visible screws. He seemed to like it, but never thanked me as I recall.

 

No because the shelf probably fell down and knocked him out

 

Of course he hasn't thanked you he couldn't find the invisible fixings leading to the shelves collapsing on top of him breaking his jaw.[/QUOTE]
Ha ha, trust you lol

 

Get back to sleep Tubby

 

Of course he hasn't thanked you he couldn't find the invisible fixings leading to the shelves collapsing on top of him breaking his jaw.[/QUOTE]
Sorry mate I unintenally copied your reply

 

Whats going on here?

 

When I started work 52 years ago customers were addressed as Sir or Madam, never 'Yes Mate', if that had ever happened my P45 would have been in the post pretty pronto!

 

That should be ' please get back to sleep tubby ' given the topic of this thread.... thank you

 

Exactly, you tell him mate

 

Sorry mate I unintenally copied your reply [/QUOTE]
That didn't work as it was supposed to.

 

He doesn't deserve it lol.

 

Crickey, I remember being an apprentice and being refereed to as ' young master ( twit or something ) and I had to refer to my elders as 'Mr' boss was Sir otherwise you got into the dog house or worse. 'Mate' as I was once told belonged on a ship.

 

Just did mate sir

 

When I was an apprentice I was always called a Banker never found out why.

 

Better than me, dunno why I refereed to as ' that word ' because I was rubbish with pancakes.

 

Have you always suffered with lip reading skills?

 

One of the things that annoys me the most with it is, say for example you were in the pub, and a random person asked your advice on how to sort their dropped upvc front door, or how to change their misted glass unit, or repair a joist etc etc, if you were decent enough to give ten or more minutes of your time it would have to be an absolute cockmuncher of a person to not have the basic decorum to thank you for your time and advice for chatting to them for ten or more minutes and helping them, not least because they may not dare upset someone in the flesh by being pig ignorant.

Yet it seems that under the online veil of anonymity, everyday Joes have no empathy, thought or the most basic manners, and show such a sense of entitlement knowing there’s no accountability for being a rude ponce.

Is it an online thing, or is it an indictment of today’s culture? Probably a question for Saturday night on Just Talk after several pints deep.

 

When I started my apprenticeship, the builder I worked for wore a jacket and tie . jacket would come off and shirt sleeves rolled up for some hand digging or the like.... but the tie stayed on....lucky really it never got caught up in the plant or something